Women in twentieth-century Italy
By: Perry Willson.
Series: Gender and history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781403995186
Subjects: Women -- Italy -- History -- 20th century; Women -- Italy -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Feminism -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
Description: "This is one of the first overviews of the experience of Italian women in the twentieth century. Willson captures the complexity of women's lives in a socially, geographically and politically diverse society, highlighting the ways in which women of different social classes and regions were affected by, and helped to shape, historical change"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Glossary * List of Illustrations * Introduction * Italian Women at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century; title: * The 'Tower of Babel': First Wave Feminism * On the 'Home Front': World War One and its Aftermath * 'Exemplary Wives and Mothers': Under Fascist Dictatorship * Doing their Duty for Nation (or Church): Mass Mobilisation during the Fascist Ventennio * War Comes to Women 1940-45 * Moving into Town: New Social and Economic Roles 1945-67 * Women's Politics in the Shadow of the Cold War 1945-67 * 'Io sono mia': Feminism in the 'Great Cultural Revolution' 1968-80 * The 'Dual Presence'@ More Work and Less Children in the Age of Materialism *; title: Conclusion * Select Bibliography * Index; title: Glossary * List of Illustrations * Introduction * Italian Women at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century; title: * The 'Tower of Babel': First Wave Feminism * On the 'Home Front': World War One and its Aftermath * 'Exemplary Wives and Mothers': Under Fascist Dictatorship * Doing their Duty for Nation (or Church): Mass Mobilisation during the Fascist Ventennio * War Comes to Women 1940-45 * Moving into Town: New Social and Economic Roles 1945-67 * Women's Politics in the Shadow of the Cold War 1945-67 * 'Io sono mia': Feminism in the 'Great Cultural Revolution' 1968-80 * The 'Dual Presence'@ More Work and Less Children in the Age of Materialism *; title: Conclusion * Select Bibliography * Index.